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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     School Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Wariner, Ruth.     Subjects     Wariner, Ruth.     Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times -- Biography.     Mormon fundamentalism -- Mexico -- Biography.     Mormon women -- Mexico -- Biography.     Mormons -- Mexico -- Biography.     Mormon women -- United States -- Biography.     Mormons -- United States -- Biography.     Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wariner, Ruth.       by title:      The sound of gravel ...       by call number:      289.3092 W276s     Search the Web     Wariner, Ruth.     Wariner, Ruth.     Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times -- Biography.     Mormon fundamentalism -- Mexico -- Biography.     Mormon women -- Mexico -- Biography.     Mormons -- Mexico -- Biography.     Mormon women -- United States -- Biography.     Mormons -- United States -- Biography.     Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times.       MARC Display

The sound of gravel : a memoir / Ruth Wariner. by Wariner, Ruth. Flatiron Books, 2016. Call #: 289.3092 W276s Subjects Wariner, Ruth.   Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times -- Biography.   Mormon fundamentalism -- Mexico -- Biography.   Mormon women -- Mexico -- Biography.   Mormons -- Mexico -- Biography.   Mormon women -- United States -- Biography.   Mormons -- United States -- Biography.   Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times. ISBN:  9781250077691 (hc.) 1250077699 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents:  The promised land -- Babylon -- Alone -- Breaking. Summary:  "One girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist family. Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the world and that women can only ascend to Heaven by entering into polygamous marriages and giving birth to as many children as possible. After Ruth's father -- the founding prophet of the colony -- is brutally murdered by his brother in a bid for church power, her mother remarries, becoming the second wife of another faithful congregant. In need of government assistance and supplemental income, Ruth and her siblings are carted back and forth between Mexico and the United States, where Ruth's mother collects welfare and her stepfather works a variety of odd jobs. Ruth comes to love the time she spends in the States, realizing that perhaps the community into which she was born is not the right one for her. As she begins to doubt her family's beliefs and question her mother's choices, she struggles to balance her fierce love for her siblings with her determination to forge a better life for herself. Recounted from the innocent and hopeful perspective of a child, this is the memoir of one girl's fight for peace and love. Ruth Warner now lives in Portland, Oregon. At the age of 15, whe left Colonia LeBaron, the Mexican polygamist Mormon colony where she grew up and moved to California, where she raised her three youngest sisters. After earning her GED, she put herself through college and graduate school, eventually becoming a high school Spanish teacher. She remains close to her siblings and is happily married."--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Autobiographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Biography 289.3092 W276s Core Collection - Adult Adult Display 1   Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Biography 289.3092 W276s Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Biography 289.3092 W276s Adult books Checked out Jul 11, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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